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Anastasis

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  1. SPY seems like the new stonk. We've all known that index is not diversified and is too heavy on a few names that have driven the growth. I got an IRA that is 100% is SPY and the last few days have been an absolutely beating. The accounts that are a mix of individuals stocks with low SPY exposure have done ok. In those I have basically been trying to trade out SPY with BRK.
  2. German intelligence has entered the chat. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7vypq31z7o German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab' Germany's foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. The intelligence service had indications that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been carrying out experiments where viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research, they say. China repeated its denial saying the cause "should be determined by scientists" - and pointed to a World Health Organization investigation which found the lab-leak theory was "extremely unlikely". There is no consensus on the cause of the Covid pandemic. The lab leak hypothesis has been hotly contested by scientists, including many who say there is no definitive evidence to back it up. But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies - and the BND is the latest to entertain the theory. In January, the US CIA said the coronavirus was "more likely" to have leaked from a lab than to have come from animals. According to Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, the BND met in Berlin in 2020 to look into the origin of coronavirus in an operation called Project Saaremaa. It assessed the lab theory as "likely", although it did not have definitive proof. The BND also found indications that several violations of safety regulations had occurred at the lab. The assessment was commissioned by the office of Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor at the time, but was never publicly known of until now. According to the papers, the findings were shared with the CIA in autumn of last year. In January this year, the CIA said that a "research-related origin" of the pandemic was more likely than a natural origin "based on the available body of reporting" - although it cautioned it had "low confidence" in this determination.
  3. I posted the WSJ article in the tariff thread.
  4. BMW corporate gonna eat the tariffs on cars built in Mexico, at least for a few weeks initially: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/bmw-absorb-tariff-costs-mexican-built-3-series-sedans-wsj-reports-2025-03-12/ Walmart pressuring Chinese suppliers to eat tariff costs, other supplies pressuring suppliers to pull up from China and relocate. Beijing big mad: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/china-summons-walmart-for-talks-as-suppliers-complain-over-tariffs-dcafe7c4
  5. No debating the merits here, but the bill snip that was posted was related to identifying your biological sex, not gender. FTR, in our current society, I am not sure that we should have to tell the government nor our employer either.
  6. That was GenXer, not troph. But good talk.
  7. Wonder what the responses would have been it I used that one.
  8. Do you have a hard time reading a clock, or is it subtraction that you struggle with.
  9. I guess feel free to point out an example via quote. We can go around the whole country tagging bills in state houses that are absolutely batshit.
  10. There are lots of crazy bills in the lege. This one won't even get a hearing. Texas is now entirely unlivable.
  11. From Chron: Oliverson's proposal faces an uphill climb to become law. As the 3,817th bill filed during the 2025 legislative session, the bill is a low priority in the chamber. It also has no co-sponsors and has not yet been scheduled for a committee hearing. Callie Butcher, founder of Butcher Legal Group, a Dallas law firm that advocates for and serves the LGBTQ community, said that while Oliverson's bill faces slim odds of passing, it's in line with other bills that would restrict transgender people's freedom of expression. Texas is now entirely unliveable.
  12. That bill has zero chance of passage, even in texas. You know this.
  13. Just donate to the GS and cut out the middle man bullshit.
  14. Of course you do.
  15. Don’t let Monday’s sell-off scare you out of the market entirely, Jim Cramer says Do what you know is right.
  16. Flu strains for 2025 have already been decided. FDA and CDC were involved. But yes, it has always been based on just guessing.
  17. Latest outbreak in canada. So 51st state for real.
  18. Smart dude, huh? Too bad we didn’t heed his insight and prescience. We fumbled the bag. But hey, the last couple years have a super high cost effectiveness ratio if you discount Ukrainian lives to zero in your model. Ghouls. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/opinion/a-fateful-error.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-from-x.html
  19. It’s the friends we make along the way.
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